Archives of CERN Directors-Generals, First series (Period 1952-1975)
Identity Statement | Context | Content and Structure | Conditions of access and use | Allied materials | Description control | Database
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Identity Statement [Top]
Reference code(s)
CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-001 to 596
Title
Archives of CERN Directors-Generals, First series (Period 1952-1975)
Date(s)
1950 - 1976
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Extent of the unit of description
599 items, 387 boxes, 43 ml
Context [Top]
Name of creator
Amaldi, Edoardo, Secretary-General of CERN (1952-1954)
Bloch, Felix, Director-General (1954-1955)
Bakker, Cornelis Jan, Director-General (1955-1960)
Adams, John Bertram, Director-General (1960-1961)
Weisskopf, Victor Frederik, Director-General (1961-1965)
Gregory, Bernard Paul, Director-General (1966-1970)
Jentschke, Willibald, Director-General (1971-1975)
Administrative or biographical history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Directors-General Office
Content & Structure [Top]
Scope and content
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Nothing was destroyed.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
| A0 | Boards of Directors / Directorate | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-001 to 037 | A0-01 to A0-13 |
| A01 | Director-General | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-038 to 064 | A01-01-01 to A01-03-03 |
| A02 | Personnel Division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-065 to 079 | A02-0 to A02-02-07 |
| A03 | Finance division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-080 to 087 | A03-0 to A03-02 |
| A04 | CERN PS Machine Division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-088 to 094 | A04-0 to A04-03 |
| A05 | Engineering Division Synchrotron Injector |
CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-095 to 096 | A05 |
| A06 | Track Chamber division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-097 to 114 | A06-0 to A06-07 & A06-08 |
| A07 | Nuclear Physics Apparatus division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-115 | A07-01 |
| A08 | Accelerator Research division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-116 to 123 | A08-01 to A08-03-01 |
| A09 | CERN SC Machine Division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-124 to 129 | A09-0 to A09-02-03 |
| A10 | Nuclear Physics division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-130 to 134 | A10-0 to A10-03 |
| A11 | Data Handling division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-135 to 142 | A11-0 to A11-03 |
| A12 | Site & Buildings division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-143 to 154 | A12-0 to A12-11 |
| A13 | Theory Division | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-155 to 157 | A13-0 to A13-01 |
| A14 | Staff Association | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-158 to 168 | A14-01 to A14-04 |
| A15 | Study Group for Fusion Research | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-169 to 171 | |
| B | External relations | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-172 to 242 | B0 to B12 |
| C | General policy | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-243 to 305 & 591 | C0 to C08 |
| D | Scientific subjects | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-306 to 380 & 592 | D01 to D14 |
| E | E01 - Council E02 - Committee of Council (CC) E03 - Finance Committee (FC) E04 - Scientific Policy Committee (SPC) E06 - Leading board |
CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-381 to 402 | E01 to E06 |
| F | Relations with Member States | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-403 to 429 & 593-596 | F0 to F02 & F1 |
| G | CERN General | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-430 to 453 & 594 | G01 to G10 |
| GD | Group of Directors documents | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-454 to 461 | GD-1 GD-DOC-1 to GD-DOC-7 |
| H | Internal Committee | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-462 to 496 | H01 to H10 |
| I | CERN Laboratory II | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-497 to 503 | I01 to I07 |
| J | CERN LabI + CERN LabII Utilization of Services Common to Both Laboratories. Co-ordinating Committee. |
CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-504 to 505 | J01 to J02 |
| P | Personal files - B.P.G. Personal - B.P. Gregory - V.F.W. Personal - V.F. Weisskopf |
CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-506 to 529 | P0 to P19 |
| EXC | Executive Committee Documents | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-530 | CERN-EXC-C-DOC |
| DG | Agenda | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-531 to 537 | DG-AG-1 to 7 |
| Chronological File of Correspondence | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-538 to 568 | DG-CHRONO-1 to 31 | |
| Directorate Meetings. | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-569 to 570 | DG-DIRECTORATE | |
| Miscellaneous DG-DGO, etc | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-571 | DG-MISC | |
| Private File of Correspondence : - C.J. Bakker, - V.F. Weisskopf, - B.P. Gregory |
CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-572 to 573 CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-574 to 575 CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-576 to 577 |
DG-PRIV-COR-1 to 6 | |
| Registration of Letters | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-578 to 580 | DG-REG-1 to 3 | |
| Rome File Registration | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-581 & 595 | DG-ROME-REG | |
| DGO-MEMO Documents | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-582 to 588 | DGO-MEMO-1 to 7 | |
| DGO-MEMO Registration | CERN-ARCH-DG-FILES-589 to 590 | DGO-MEMO-REG-1 to 2 |
Conditions of access and use [Top]
Conditions governing access
See file level description and the CERN operational circular No 3: rules applicable to archival material and archiving at CERN. In general, records on any subject that are over 30 years old, and all records of a purely scientific nature, may be consulted.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright is retained by CERN, no reproduction without permission.
Language / scripts of material
Most of the material is written in xxxx.
Finding aids
Listed to file level in the CERN Archives Database.
Description control [Top]
Archivist's note
Description prepared by xxxx
Date(s) of description
Geneva, the xxxx